The 9th Annual Gambia National Internet Governance Forum will be held on Wednesday-Thursday May 10-11 2023, with the theme ‘Building Economic Reliance and Digital Sovereignty in the Gambia Context’. The Internet Governance Forum serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy issues related to the Internet. The Forum is organized to represent all key stakeholders in the Gambia through a National Steering Committee coordinated by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy (MOCDE).
On Thursday & Friday January 27-28 2022 the 7th Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum (TTIGF) will be held online. TTIGF 2023 has the theme ‘Creating a Stronger, More Resilient Internet for Trinidad and Tobago’s Shared Sustainable Future‘. The theme was selected to reflect the current climate in Trinidad and Tobago after being forced into a digital age.
01 Opening Remarks Tracy Hackshaw, Chair, Trinidad and Tobago Multistakeholder Advisory Group (TTMAG) Paul Mitchell, Chair, United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) Dev Gosine, Chair-Elect, TTMAG
02 Keynote Dr. the Honourable Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Minister of Education, Ministry of Education
03 Internet Resilience: Implications for Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean Kevin Chege, Director of Internet Development, Internet Society (ISOC) Kurleigh Prescod, Executive Officer Technology & Engineering, Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT) Brent McIntosh, Chief Technical Officer, McNet-Solutions Patrick Hosein, Director, TTMAG Rodney Taylor, Secretary General, Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) Bevil Wooding, Caribbean Outreach, American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
MOD: Kim I. Mallalieu (PhD), Senior Lecturer, UWI
04 Future-proofing ICT in Education Dr. Peter Smith, Chief Education Officer, Ministry of Education Keith Laban, ICT Educator, Ministry of Education Pt. Shiva Maharaj, Educational Technologist & Founder, Director Chief Operations Officer, I.C.T. Expertz Ltd. Dev Gosine, Chair-Elect, TTMAG & Founder, WeXL.Online Andrea Kanneh, Manager Performance and Engagement Digital Skills Unit, Ministry of Digital Transformation Keith Nurse, President, College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT)
MOD: Jacqueline Morris, Director, TTMAG
05 Day 2 Opening Remarks Tracy Hackshaw, Chair, Trinidad and Tobago Multistakeholder Advisory Group (TTMAG)Y 1 – JAN 27
06 D.A.T.A. – Digital Acceptance, Transformation and Acceleration for T&T Wendell Mitchell, National Chief Digital Officer, Ministry of Digital Transformation Lequanne Collins-Bacchus, Senior Advisor, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Ravi Sankar – Partner, Head of Cyber and Technology Consulting, KPMG Caricom
MOD: Ken Sooknanan, Director, TTMAG
07 The A.R.T of Cybersecurity: Attacks, Risks, and Threats Vince Stewart, Director, CyberEye Caribbean Ricardo Martinez, Chief Revenue Officer, DigitalEra Group Anthony Peyson, President, International Information System Security Certification Consortium’s Caribbean Chapter ((ICS)2 Caribbean Chapter) Emmanuel A. Oscar, Manager Systems Engineering – Caribbean and Bermuda, Fortinet
MOD: Ajmal Nazir, Director, TTMAG
08 LACNIC Panel Sum-up & Regional Cybersecurity Culture Insight Kevon Swift, Head of Public Safety Affairs, LACNIC
09 Open Forum Tracy Hackshaw, Chair, TTMAG Dev Anand Teelucksingh, Director, TTMAG
On Thursday January 19 2023 at 11:00-12:30 EST (16:00-17:30 UTC) the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information presents a webinar ‘Whither the Internet Governance Forum?‘. There’s been much debate both within the IGF ecosystem and among governments (including EU heads of state), and in UN SG Guterres’ Global Digital Compact process, about the future of the IGF and whether and how it could be institutionally reformed to enhance its outputs and make them more politically salient. In 2025 the UN GA will decide on whether to renew the IGF’s mandate as part of its WSIS+20 review process. An expert panel will explore the options and prognosis.
PANEL Raúl Echeberría, Executive Director of ALAI, the Latin American Internet Association (Uruguay) Anriette Esterhuysen, Senior Advisor for Internet Governance, the Association for Progressive Communications (South Africa) Adam Peake, Senior Manager for Civil Society Engagement, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (the Netherlands) Flávio Rech Wagner, Emeritus Professor in the Institute of Informatics, the University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre (Brazil) MODERATOR William J. Drake, Director of International Studies at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
Le lundi 5 décembre 2022 de 9h30 à 17h30 CET (08h30 à 16h30 UTC), le Forum de la Gouvernance de l’Internet France 2022 (FGI France) se tiendra à Paris et en ligne. Objectif : engager les multiples parties concernées dans un dialogue sur la gouvernance de l’Internet. Une webdiffusion en direct sera assurée par l’Internet Society France Chapter.
Core Internet values came under stress at the start of the war in Ukraine, with calls to “block” Russia from the Internet. A common statement “Towards the Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions” was circulated. This session will examine the feasibility and desirability of such proposals.
SPEAKERS Bastiaan Goslings, Senior Policy and Governance advisor, RIPE NCC Bill Woodcock, Executive Director, Packet Clearing House Iria Puyosa, International Research Advisory Council, Toda Institute Veronika Datzer, policy advisor, German Parliament Vint Cerf, Internet Evangelist, Google
MODERATORS Olivier Crépin-Leblond, ISOC UK England Alejandro Pisanty, UNAM
At the Internet Society, we believe that the Internet is for everyone. Our work centers on increasing the Internet’s reach, reliability and resilience, as well as ensuring that the Internet remains open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. In Africa, ISOC has been carrying out and supporting many activities to help grow the Internet in Africa including supporting Community Networks, Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), increasing technical capacity and building communities of practice.
In addition, identifying areas to improve Internet resiliency via measurements has been carried out with the data publicly available on ISOC’s Pulse platform . Internet Resilience measurements have given a glimpse on areas whose improvement would improve the reliability of Internet connectivity in Africa. Could a framework document around improving resilience help regulators in providing an environment that supports the growth of a resilient Internet at national level? Join this lightning talk that will discuss the approach to an Internet Resilience framework document that ISOC is helping to develop for regulators that could help improve Internet access in the region
SPEAKERS Verengai Mabika, Senior Policy Advisor – Africa, Internet Society Dr. Dawit Bekele, Regional Vice President – Africa, Internet Society Kevin Chege, Director, Internet Development, Internet Society
An expert panel addresses the opportunities and challenges of satellite reliant Internet access, currently offered by service providers such as SpaceX or OneWeb. We seek to explore potential benefits as well as threats that come with this new technology. We address this new phenomenon through references to the SDGs and international law, exploring whether current policies offer plausible solutions to upcoming or potential problems.
PANEL Dan York, Director, Online Content, Internet Society Akcali Gur Berna, Queen Mary University of London Wu Fei, Professor, Ji Nan University Mwangi Michuki, Regional Development Manager – Africa, Internet Society
MODERATORS Kulesza Joanna, University of Lodz Dan York, Internet Society
The Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) has designated “Avoiding Internet Fragmentation” to be one of the 2022 IGF’s five organizing themes. There likely will be many events on the program related to this topic, but what exactly does Internet fragmentation mean, and how does that meaning affect the actions that may be undertaken by states and stakeholders?
This session brings together prominent analysts and stakeholders from five continents, with varying and even divergent viewpoints, in the hope of working toward a higher level of consensus (or at least a more structured range of disagreements) on the core features, sources, forms, and consequences of Internet fragmentation, and what all these may mean for actions taken in response by states and stakeholders.
PANEL Milton Mueller, Internet Governance Project, Georgia Tech Wolfgang Kleinwächter, European Summer School on Internet Governance Sheetal Kumar, Global Partners Digital Neha Mishra, Geneva Graduate Institute Andrew Sullivan, Internet Society Xu Peixi, Communication University of China
Dal 18 al 19 novembre 2022, l’IGF Italia 2022 si terrà presso Ancona. L’evento annuale, IGF Italia 2022, promuove e facilita il confronto e il dibattitto tra tutte le parti interessate permettendo di discutere e condividere iniziative che riguardano la gestione ed evoluzione di Internet privilegiando oltre agli aspetti tecnici anche quelli economici e sociali.
On Wednesday November 16 2022 at 12:00-13:30 WAT (11:00-12:30 UTC) the Internet Society Nigeria Chapter will host a roundtable ‘How to Attract and Engage @Global Internet Fora‘. This is a warm up session for the Chapter’s Virtual Annual General Meeting (vAGM), which will not be streamed.
The 9th Annual Gambia National Internet Governance Forum will be held on Wednesday-Thursday May 10-11 2023, with the theme ‘Building Economic Reliance and Digital Sovereignty in the Gambia Context’. The Internet Governance Forum serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy issues related to the Internet. The Forum is organized to represent all key stakeholders in the Gambia through a National Steering Committee coordinated by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy (MOCDE).
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